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“I recall being stopped in a corridor when he asked what mischief I was up to (every boy was up to some mischief in his eyes) and each word was punctuated by a tap on my head with the handful of wooden rulers he was carrying.

“When the new school opened, all the boys had to wear plimsolls to protect the new wooden flooring.

"No playing fields existed then as they had not been created, although the annual cross country run, which was two laps around Knighton Park during the winter months, was fun, with the teachers gathered to watch us boys running through the brook and slipping and sliding over the wet muddy banks.

“Mr Garner, who was a games master, was also very keen on gardening so we had lessons on how to grow veggies, thus he created a vegetable plot that we worked on and I assume the produce was used in the school kitchen for our dinners.